An activity is a general name for a group of features in a LMS course. Usually an activity is something that a student will do that interacts with other students and or the teacher.
An Activity, such as Forums or Quizzes, properly means something students can contribute to directly, and is often contrasted to a Resource such as a File or Page, which is presented by the teacher to them. However, the term activity is sometimes for convenience also used to refer to both Activities and Resources as a group.
There are 14 different types of activities in the LMS that can be found when the editing is turned on and the link ‘Add an activity or resource’ is clicked.
Assignments Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line Chat Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion Choice A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses Database Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries Feedback For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback. Forum Allows participants to have asynchronous discussions Glossary Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary Interactive activity Enables interactive content created in the Content bank Lesson For delivering content in flexible ways (LTI) External tool Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites. (These must first be set up by an administrator on the site before being available in individual courses.) Quiz Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown SCORM Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content Survey For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching Wiki A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit Workshop Enables peer assessment